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  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God. Download This Image
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
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Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - The fact is I don’t lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me. Download This Image

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    To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that’s quite a task.

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    We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

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    Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

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    I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise. Download This Image

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    One must also accept that one has ‘uncreative’ moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

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    Every word born of an inner necessity – writing must never be anything else.

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    I don’t think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

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